Market Development Portfolio Lead

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

Become part of a critical team where you will influence successful outcomes. You will be required to participate, contribute and prepare advocacy strategies and responses for a range of industry policy initiatives and reforms that aligns to business strategies.

In this role as the Portfolio Lead, you will be a key contributor to the Market Development team, supporting the business in providing advice to our customers for their generation and major load connections by being responsible for the management and development of the portfolio of projects and initiatives to enable these opportunities in Victoria and inter-state.

This role can be based in Southbank and is part of the Market Development Team within the Development and Future Networks (DFN) division.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Progress the development of the portfolio of projects and activity streams related to Market Development
• Collaborate with DFN teams to co-ordinate generator and load connection opportunities
• Lead stakeholder engagement to support the implementation of the Contestable Connections projects and initiatives as required
• Support commercial interests by developing business cases, network augmentation proposals, and feasibility studies for transmission grid and connection solutions, funding sourced internally or externally.
• Provide insights and prepare response strategy to policy and industry reform initiatives by AEMO, AER, VicGrid, AEMC, CEC, and other relevant Victorian, national and inter-state industry parties.
• Co-ordinate DFN’s response and advocacy with company’s Planning and Policy teams to industry development and alignment with the AusNet and DFN strategy
• Represent AusNet Services in industry forums, working groups, and consultations as required
• Prepare and present the responses, progress, learnings, impacts and opportunities from above industry participation to internal stakeholders.

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Degree or equivalent with 7+ years’ professional experience or greater.
• Demonstrated knowledge of electricity network planning and National Electricity Rules
• Experience in electricity industry in network planning, connection and some of the areas of asset engineering, asset management, or energy industry regulation
• Excellent written, communication, reporting and presentation skills with ability to translate technical material to wider audience
• Strong attention to detail and an analytical mindset
• A high level of organisational skills and demonstrated ability to effectively handle multiple tasks, set priorities, manage timeframes and meet deadlines under pressure
• Good interpersonal skills that enable communication and work with all levels of internal stakeholders and external customers / suppliers / stakeholders
• Ability to work within and contribute to a team with team members across various disciplines including stakeholder, commercial, technical and delivery
• Proven accountability, responsibility and proactiveness for outcomes

A real place to belong

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.